Why does my application not register with Eureka server?

Question

I have a simple spring boot application that should register with Eureka. I used the new annotation @EnableDiscoveryClient but still no action at startup. The class is declared as follows, and has a single request mapping.

@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableDiscoveryClient
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@RestController
public class SpringBootEchoApplication {

I see no error messages or anything a startup, I just don't get any discovery client logging like I do in my other app which uses the annotation to enable zuul.

Answer 1

After checking the dependencies in the two projects, the one in which I was not getting eureka registration did not include the eureka-client dependency.

I guess this is a drawback to the @Conditional configuration way of doing things in boot. Even though I have the appropriate Enable annotation specified, because I have no DiscoveryClient implementation (like Eureka) I get no registration... but also no error messages.